Investing.com – Spain equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Building & Construction sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Madrid, the IBEX 35 fell 0.26%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IBEX 35 were Obrascon Huarte Lain (MADRID:OHL), which rose 6.23% or 1.075 points to trade at 18.335 at the close. Int.Airl.Grp (MADRID:ICAG) added 2.04% or 0.163 points to end at 8.152 and Mapfre (MADRID:MAP) was up 0.81% or 0.027 points to 3.347 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Abengoa B (MADRID:ABGek), which lost 3.81% or 0.110 points to trade at 2.780 in late trade. Bankia (MADRID:BKIA) declined 1.59% or 0.019 points to end at 1.173 and FCC (MADRID:FCC) shed 1.15% or 0.108 points to 9.294.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 136 to 74 and 5 ended unchanged on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 1.11% or 12.70 to $1131.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.41% or 0.21 to hit $50.70 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.17% or 0.10 to trade at $57.02 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.26% to 1.0848, while EUR/GBP fell 0.37% to 0.6942.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.22% at 97.98.